Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

(—) (): We always look to Australia's interests, and I'd make a couple of points about that, listening to the quote. In relation to an options paper, that is not government policy but what options might or might not have been considered. The second point I'd make is around investment in our energy sector by companies, which might be foreign companies but investing in Australia, enabling Australian jobs. If you look at our resources sector, if you look at our energy sector, and if you look at what has happened in coal and in the LNG industry and all of those Australian jobs, many of them have been enabled because of investment by energy partners. So I would make the point to you that it's not correct to say that looking at how other countries might react is somehow not in the interests of Australia. We have an interest in ensuring investment continues. (Time expired)